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Whole display wipe effect

Hi all,
First post. I am new to this whole scene and have a so far built 2 Sandevices 682 controllers and got them working basically with a few light strings and Vixen3.

I have searched through the forums, and messed around in vixen, but have not yet been able to figure out how to apply a wipe effect across the entire display.
For simplicity, I have 3 megatrees defined and put them in a group "trees". My preview is configured to have the mega trees next to each other horizontally from left to right. Applying effects to the group seems to just have each tree do the same effect, but not treat the group as a single element.

Can someone explain how I would be able to get a "wipe" type of effect to travel through all 3 trees from left to right?

Re: Whole display wipe effect

Thanks for all the responses! Everything seems correct.
Perhaps I just am missing some fundamental understanding of effects/elements. I've reduced my preview to a single grid. I am applying a wipe effect to the grid with the following effect properties:
type: pulse length
direction: wipe right
color: color gradient (just white)
brightness: upside down V standard intensity curve
Pulse: duration=1000

The grid just pulses/fades in and out. The direction property has no effect unless I set it to Burst In or Burst Out - then the grid disappears completely (and the effect becomes just an outline on the timeline)

Re: Whole display wipe effect

For those following this: The issue stemmed from the fact that on his screen the green close button wasn't in view (the form was not fully expanded) Because that wasn't in view he (and I) just naturally click the windows "X" button to close the form.

The "X" button doesn't update location properties like the green close button and the file>exit option.

So when he drew a wipe it looked like a pulse across the whole element/group as there was no location data.

Jon, do you think the X button should update location properties as well? If we do make it that way you could still click cancel on the setup previews dialog as that is where the saving or not saving actually occur.